The City of Winnipeg expanded its testing of rubber asphalt material to pave an 800 metre stretch of Portage Avenue in 2009. This follows the laying of a 300 metre rubber asphalt pedestrian-bicycle path along Bishop Grandin Blvd. in 2008.
Improper tire maintenance practices collectively cost Canadians approximately $500 million a year and cause 1.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere.
